Sherlock Holmes: Book XXIII - New Stories

By MARKK DYEHOUSE

Step into the London of our late Queen, a city shrouded in pea-souper fog and sinister, dark courts, and follow the world's most singular consulting detective as he applies his methods to problems that defy ordinary reason and try a man's pluck. Each narrative in this volume flings wide a door to suspense, wherein scarcely anything is as it appears, and the most trivial detail may well prove the singular key required for the elucidation of the truth.

Atmosphere of the richest colour, complex characters, and intricate problems will try the reader's intellect and patience alike. Sherlock Holmes: BOOK XXIII is no mere miscellany of novel adventures; it is a progress through the rigorous science of deduction and the labyrinthine recesses of the human mind, presenting problems which appear utterly beyond solution.

Prepare your mind, therefore, to unravel mysteries which cannot fail to hold your singular attention from the outset to the very end - for in the London of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, nothing is ever entirely simple.

# THE JAMMED GUN

Inspector Lestrade calls upon Mr. Sherlock Holmes to investigate a seemingly indisputable crime in the village of Chagford, in Devon. A respected local citizen is shot dead in the middle of a fair, in full view of fifty witnesses who point without hesitation to the same shooter: an amateur botanist caught red-handed with the revolver still smoking. However, there is a puzzling piece of ballistic evidence: the bullet from the murderer's gun never actually left the barrel.]

# THE BLOOD DIAMOND

Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sought out by a young heir, whose family appears to be the victim of a diabolical, centuries-old curse linked to a certain 'Golconda Diamond', a colossal gemstone that was brought to England by sea. For generations, members of the young man's lineage, as well as anyone who has attempted to steal or handle the jewel, have ended up succumbing to madness or dying mysteriously without any physical signs of violence.]

# THE SILENT NOISES

Dr. Watson is overcome with deep anguish as he watches Mr. Sherlock Holmes sink into a catatonic silence, followed by Holmes's bizarre and seemingly irrational behaviour throughout the city. Fearing that the detective's brilliant mind has collapsed irreversibly, Watson finds himself facing a mounting crisis that attracts the attention of Inspector Lestrade, a psychiatrist and even Mycroft Holmes, who suspects that his brother's erratic behaviour may conceal a serious threat of treason against the Empire. The plot explores the fine line between genius and madness, putting Watson's loyalty to the test in a scenario where the very walls of 221B Baker Street seem on the verge of crumbling forever.]

# THE ALLURE OF FICTION

On an unusual spring morning, Dr. Watson awakens from a terrifying trance and discovers that he and Mrs. Hudson have fallen victim to a mysterious book capable of paralysing and hypnotising its readers in an uncontrollable manner. Mr. Sherlock Holmes soon realises that the problem has already spread throughout almost the whole of London, affecting everyone from ordinary citizens to the highest echelons of Parliament, and creating desperate crowds queuing for hours to buy the daily instalments by an unknown Indian writer.]

# WORD IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLDEN?

Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to investigate a most bizarre mystery linked to London's jewellers, where the merchants are inexplicably torn between spontaneous false confessions and absolute, catatonic silence. Whilst attempting to unravel the strange case in sweltering heat, Watson begins to witness absurd and disturbing anomalies scattered throughout the city, which, in a most frightening way, defy all the laws of science known up to that point.]

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN5K545W
• ISBN13: 9798162749035
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"